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8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery
Body Bears the Burden
EMDR : Transforming Trauma
Healing Trauma
I Can't Get Over It
Overcoming Traumatic Stress
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook

The PTSD Workbook
Trauma & Recovery
Trauma, The Body & Transformation
Trust After Trauma
Unchained Memories
Understanding Trauma & Dissociation
Waking The Tiger

8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery

by Babette Rothschild
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This book gives self help readers, therapy clients and therapists alike the skills to understand and implement eight keys to successful trauma healing. It will enable survivors to recognise their own individual needs and evaluate whether those needs are being met. They will have the tools necessary to put themselves in the driver's seat, navigating their own safe road to recovery.

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The Body Bears the Burden : Trauma Dissociation and Disease

by Robert C. Scaer, MD
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This book identifies the ways that the sudden helplessness and terror of trauma induce changes in brain function, and the effects these changes can have on muscles, digestion, blood pressure, and many other bodily systems. It gives doctors, counsellors and other workers the information to offer new hope to anyone suffering from whiplash, PTSD or a history of abuse. Written for professionals, but of interest to survivors too.

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EMDR : Transforming Trauma : The Revolutionary New Therapy for Freeing the Mind Clearing the Body & Opening the Heart

by Laurel Parnell, PhD
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Gives lots of examples of how EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing) therapy has helped people who've suffered trauma or abuse, and/or are suffering from depression, anxiety, eating disorders, etc. It's not a self-help book, but is intended to help you decide if it's a method you want to try.

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Healing Trauma : A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body

by Peter Levine
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Building on his pioneering book Waking the Tiger, Peter Levine offers an integrated self-healing tool. Traumas, large or small, can produce long-term emotional and physical symptoms, sometimes gradually. This small book with an accompanying CD of exercises can help us “return us to the natural state we are meant to live in.”

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I Can't Get Over It : A Handbook for Trauma Survivors

by Aphrodite Matsakis
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"There is no magic formula that will undo all your pain and losses. What this book does attempt to do is to explain what PTSD is and what causes it. It also presents some techniques for coping with the symptoms and side-effects of PTSD and trauma... The healing process is presented step-by-step". Recommended.

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Overcoming Traumatic Stress : A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques
by Claudia Herbert & Ann Wetmore
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"This book is intended as a guide to help you understand the range of reactions, thoughts and feelings that you may be experiencing, so that you will be able to find the confidence and courage within yourself… to find new, effective ways of coping with, and finally overcoming, traumatic stress"

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The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook : A Guide to Healing, Recovery and Growth
by Glenn R. Schiraldi, PhD
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“This book will involve you in your own healing and help you to take control of your recovery process. It will also help you to recognise your limitations, determine if help is needed, and find the right help…. PTSD is also the story of courage, determination, resilience and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Today there is much cause for hope. People with PTSD can be helped.”

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The PTSD Workbook : Simple Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms

by M. William & S. Poijuka
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"Trauma survivors need to find ways to work through their experiences... In this workbook you will have the opportunity to complete numerous exercises that will give you insight into your symptoms, your beliefs, your behaviours, and your feelings about the trauma or traumas you endured."

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Trauma & Recovery : The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse & Political Terror

by Judith L. Herman
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NEW EDITION "The first part of this book delineates the spectrum of human adaptation to traumatic events and gives a new diagnostic name to the psychological disorder found in survivors of prolonged, repeated abuse....The second part...develops an overview of the healing process and offers a new conceptual framework for psychotherapy with traumatised people." Based on 20 years clinical work with victims of incest and sexual & domestic violence, and the growing body of research on war veterans, etc. Written for professionals, but of interest to survivors too.

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Trauma, The Body & Transformation : A Narrative Inquiry

Edited by Kim Etherington
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"Childhood trauma creates chaos in many people's lives and chaos can leave us speechless, voiceless and silenced... Without a voice our body finds other ways to speak for us; our spirit survives and transcends our physical body. This book is full of stories about survival and transformation."
The style is a bit academic.

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Trust After Trauma : A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them
by Aphrodite Matsakis
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"This book is about trauma and relationships, about how being traumatized as the result of violence has strained your existing relationships and made it difficult for you to feel close to others." She explains how survivors' increased understanding of emotional pain can ultimately enrich their ability to relate to other people. Includes step-by-step exercises, and some advice for partners.

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Unchained Memories : True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found
by Lenore Terr, M.D.
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Seven cases shed light on why it is rare for a reclaimed memory to be wholly false. These are true stories of what happens when people remember what they’ve tried to forget – plus one case of genuine false memory.

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Understanding Trauma & Dissociation : A Guide for Patients, Therapists and Loved Ones
by Lynn Karjala
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This book aims to unravel the mystery of dissociation for trauma survivors and their loved ones, and for psychotherapists who treat the after-effects of trauma, In simple and clear language, it explains the connections between dissociation, trauma, and the devastating physical and psychological symptoms that stem from them.

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Waking The Tiger : Healing Trauma

by Peter A. Levine
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"Trauma is a fact of life. It does not however, have to be a life sentence... We must understand how the body is affected by trauma, and its central position in healing its aftermath... This book is about the gift of wisdom we receive as a result of learning to harness and transform the body's awesome, primordial, and intelligent energies... In overcoming the destructive force of trauma, our innate potential lifts us to new heights..."

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